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Create Tests

You can create SystemEDGE policy to define a set of monitors, configuration preferences, and other settings that control how the agent runs and what it monitors. After you create SRM tests, you can group them and associate profiles with agents and agent sets.

See also Policy Configuration in the Online Help and Administration Guide.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Resources.
2. Open the Configuration pane, expand Policies, and click Service Response.

   The Service Response page appears. You can create a new policy or use the existing default policy if appropriate.

3. Click + (New) on the Available Policies toolbar.

   The New Service Response Monitoring Policy dialog appears.

4. Enter appropriate values and click OK.

   CA Virtual Assurance loads the new policy.

5. Click the Test tab.

   The Test Monitors pane opens.

6. Click + (New) on the Test Monitors toolbar.

   The fields to specify a test appear.

7. Specify a unique name for the test in the Test Name field. The name must be 64 characters or less. Test names are case-sensitive.
8. (Optional) Specify a description and a class for the test in the Description field. The description identifies the test for the user. It must be 4096 characters or less.
9. Specify the interval (in seconds) between tests in the Test Interval field. The interval must be a multiple of 30 seconds. Use this option for tuning the performance of your tests.
10. In the Test Timeout field, specify the time (in seconds) after which the test should time out. Select a number that is less than the interval but greater than the amount of time that the test requires to execute.
11. Set the polling interval by selecting one of the following from the Polling Interval list:
    • Normal
    • Off
    • Slow
12. Select the type of test you want to create from the Test Type list:
    • Active Directory (Windows only)
    • Custom
    • DHCP
    • DNS
    • FILE I/O
    • FTP
    • HTTP
    • HTTPS
    • IMAP
    • LDAP
    • MAPI (Windows only)
    • NIS
    • NNTP
    • PING
    • POP3
    • Round-Trip Email
    • SMTP
    • SNMP
    • SQL Query
    • TCP Connect
    • TFTP
    • Virtual User (Windows only)
13. Set the options for your test in the Test Options field. Options vary by test type. For details about the setting options for each test, refer to the specific page for that test type.

    Note: The options that you set on this page apply to all paths that SRM creates for this test. When you modify these options, the changes affect every path. If you want to modify an option for only one path or only select paths (but not all paths that use this test), you must create a copy of the test, modify the options you want to change, and then associate the new test with the agents to which you want to apply the changes.

14. To set advanced options, select Advanced in the Common Options area.
15. Use the Test Index Override field to control the order in which tests run or to standardize an index for the same test running on multiple machines.

    The SystemEDGE agent usually runs tests in a multi-threaded environment, so several tests run simultaneously. In cases where you want to run tests in sequence and to control the order in which they run, set the thread count to 1 to ensure that only one test runs at a time. Then assign an index value to each test that you want to order. The range of index override values is from 1000000 to 1009999. Priority goes to the lowest index number.

    Note: When using this option, it is good practice to leave some unassigned indexes between tests. This makes it easier to modify the order of tests or add a new test into an existing sequence without having to change the index for all of your tests.

16. In the Samples Per Interval field, specify the number of test transactions to perform at each interval.

In the Statistics Window field, specify the time (in seconds) over which SRM calculates the response time and availability statistics for this test. This value should be a multiple of 30. Ensure that the Statistics Window setting is greater than the Test Interval and preferably a multiple of that value. For example, a Test Interval of 60 and a Statistics Window setting of 300.

1. In the Total Response Limit field, specify the acceptable performance limit (or threshold) for the total response time of this test. This value is used in reports.
2. In the TOS/DSCP field, specify the IP Type of Service (TOS) or Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value if your router is configured to use one of them. If you specify a TOS or DSCP value, the first test sets the value so that subsequent operations will already have it set. See also: RFC 1349.
3. Complete the required entries and click Save Template.

   The new test is saved.

Note: When you are specifying pathnames, be sure to use the correct type of slashes for the operating system on which the test will run. That is, use forward slashes (/) when you specify directories for UNIX systems and backslashes (\) when you specify directories for Windows systems.